Your 10 favorite Instagrams 📸

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from the @COLAtoday feed.

From the bottom of our hearts, we just wanted to thank y’all for voting us Best Instagram in Free Times Best of Columbia awards. <6-months young, that’s a huge accomplishment for our team.

And we couldn’t do it without each and every one of you, helping supply us with some of the best content in Soda City.

Here’s a look back our top 10 Instagram posts. (I think we can safely assume our followers love themselves some Cola sunsets.)

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Total Solar Eclipse in Cola | August 21, 2017

📷: @realadampowell

1,012 likes + 8 comments

That one time everyone lost it at 2:41 in the afternoon.

2️⃣

Duck Donuts opening announcement | July 13, 2017

📷: @iamjrichardson

976 likes + 149 comments

Two straight weeks of donuts-in-the-air pics.

3️⃣

Men’s Basketball Final Four celebration | March 26, 2017

📷: @ceiden26

752 likes + 9 comments

You know a celebration is lit when President Pastides tweets “I know I should be upset.. But I’m jealous.” Us too, Harris, us too.

4️⃣

Total Eclipse Weekend | August 20, 2017

📷: Tucker Scott on @totaleclipsecae

709 likes + 9 comments

5️⃣

River Rat rooftop bar announcement | June 12, 2017

📷: @k_carter_92

667 likes + 44 comments

Not so patiently waiting for the rooftop to finally open.

6️⃣

West Cola Riverwalk reopening | June 5, 2017

📷: @hannuhthom

656 likes + 17 comments

7️⃣

Cola skyline from Gervais + Barnwell St. | August 13, 2017

📷: @erinkwalsh

613 likes + 8 comments

#TBT to when I double-tapped this fine scene while drinking two-buck chuck on my couch.

8️⃣

Summer sunset downtown | June 11, 2017

📷: @bebeskravitz

586 likes + 4 comments

9️⃣

UofSC campus | August 2, 2017

📷: @uofsc

564 likes + 11 comments

UofSC is GOAT for their response in the battle of the S.C. campus pics.

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Fourth of July fireworks over Lake Murray | July 1, 2017

📷: @troybrowderphoto

562 likes + 6 comments

Thanks again Cola – we really can’t say it enough. Keep tagging us + adding #COLAtoday to your posts.

Sam

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